Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xix Pg 33
Col. ii. 16, 17.
We do not now treat of the law, further than (to remark) that the apostle here teaches clearly how it has been abolished, even by passing from shadow to substance—that is, from figurative types to the reality, which is Christ. The shadow, therefore, is His to whom belongs the body also; in other words, the law is His, and so is Christ. If you separate the law and Christ, assigning one to one god and the other to another, it is the same as if you were to attempt to separate the shadow from the body of which it is the shadow. Manifestly Christ has relation to the law, if the body has to its shadow. But when he blames those who alleged visions of angels as their authority for saying that men must abstain from meats—“you must not touch, you must not taste”—in a voluntary humility, (at the same time) “vainly puffed up in the fleshly mind, and not holding the Head,”6088 6088
Edersheim Bible History
Temple xvii Pg 1.1, Temple xvii Pg 2.10
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 2
VERSE (17) - Joh 1:17 Heb 8:5; 9:9; 10:1
